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Dietary supplements can slow progression of age-related macular degeneration, NIH study...
The Age-Related Eye Disease Studies (AREDS and AREDS2) established that dietary supplements...
What Is Cupping Therapy?
While cupping has been practiced as a healing therapy for thousands of years, modern medicine is still working to understand its true benefits and...
Natural cancer remedies: sorting fact from fiction
When it comes to natural remedies for cancer therapy, many patients are given anecdotal advice about the usefulness of alternative...
Petasites japonicus — Bevin Clare
In the early spring at my home garden one of the first flowers I see is that of Petasites japonicus, an edible...
A dangerous or beneficial plant?
A new Disease-a-Month study summarizes the traditional and modern uses of kratom,...
What Is Energy Healing?
Scientific research on the health benefits of energy healing is lacking; the field needs more rigorous studies to determine efficacy. Some data suggests some...
Why are vaccination rates in England falling?
Millions of children in England risk contracting potentially fatal diseases as vaccination rates continue to fall for the second year...
Who is that early spring beauty? Skunk Cabbage! — Bevin Clare
Skunk Cabbage! Native to Eastern North America, one if the earliest plants of spring is skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus. Known for its fetid odor and...
Addressing parents’ hesitancy to vaccinate their children against COVID
Vaccines are among some of the most effective preventative measures against infectious disease morbidity and mortality. Smallpox, for example, has been eradicated worldwide solely...
Pain Relief, Mental Health, Sleep, Nausea Relief, and More
Acupressure is a type of massage therapy used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which pressure is applied to different points, called acupressure points,...